Ernest Millington

Ernest Millington

Ernest Rogers Millington DFC (born 15 February 1916) is a former British Common Wealth and (later) Labour Member of Parliament.

Millington was educated at Chigwell, the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea and Birkbeck College, London. He served with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Wing-Commander and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.

He was elected as Member of Parliament for Chelmsford at a by-election in April 1945, for the short-lived Common Wealth Party.

The vacancy was created by the death of the previous Conservative member, Col. J. R. J. Macnamara, killed on active service in Italy.

Millington saw himself "as a communist with a small c", and advocated a socialist program based on nationalization of the land and public ownership. At the by-election he overturned a Conservative majority of 16,624 to win by 6,431 votes, becoming the "Baby of the House of Commons".He was one of the first public figures to question the morality of the area bombardment of Germany.

Millington held his seat in the 1945 general election and joined the Labour Party in April 1946. He lost his seat in the 1950 general election.

Millington rejoined the R.A.F. in 1954, but later embarked on a career in education, becoming the Head of Education at Shoreditch Comprehensive School in 1965. He later retired to France, where he still lives.

Following the death of John Profumo on March 10 2006, Ernest Millington is the only living former MP elected prior to the 1945 general election. He is also the last surviving person to have served as a Common Wealth MP.

Millington's autobiography, "Was That Really Me?", was published in 2006.

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*UK by-election records


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